Papua New Guinea has accepted Indonesia’s explanation why it sent two Su-27s to intercept a Falcon jet carrying PNG Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah home from Malaysia on Nov. 29.
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Category: Air Force
Paris to order A330 MRTT next year
France plans to place an order in 2013 for the Airbus A330 refueling tanker and the planes will be delivered in 2017.
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Taiwan’s FM lobbied U.S. congressmen for support on F-16C/D
Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Timothy Yang, met two members of the U.S. Congress last week to continue pressing for the sale of F-16C/Ds to the island.
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Libyan Air Force team arrives in Malta to pick up Mirage F1s
A group of technicians and pilots from the Libyan Air Force have arrived in Malta to bring two Mirage F1 fighters back home.
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Qatar and Kuwait interested in Rafale
French defense minister Gerard Longuet said Qatar and Kuwait are interested in buying the Rafale fighter.
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